I worry about the fact that an employee at Google can read all my email. ​ I worry that they know many of the websites I visited and what I searched for. With FireGPG and GnuPG, I can easily encrypt my email. ​ It's a start.

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===== Creating a Key =====

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First, you need to generate a key. Under linux, you do this with the following command.

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gpg --gen-key

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When prompted, create the default key type, which is "DSA and Elgamal"​. ​ The details are not important, but this key is common and works well.